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Line 39: − [[File:Carter mondale 1200.JPG|right|350px|thumb|Jimmy Carter on the campaign trail with the Democratic nominee, [[Walter Mondale]], in 1984.]]+ −
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===Lyndon Johnson===
===Lyndon Johnson===
[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>
[[Lyndon Johnson]] sought to buy off Blacks through dependency and said "I will have those n---ers vote Democrat for the next 200 years." While Johnson also appointed [[NAACP]] lawyer [[Thurgood Marshall]] the first African American Supreme Court Justice, a young White House attorney recommended Federal Judge William Henry Hastie—who had been Marshall's professor at Harvard Law School—as a more qualified African American candidate, but LBJ rejected the light-skinned Hastie, explaining, "Son, when I appoint a ni--er to the court, I want everyone to know he's a ni--er." <ref>http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racism</ref>
===Jimmy Carter===
===Jimmy Carter===